2 - Transcending the State–Market Dichotomy, Developmentalism and Industrial Change: Learning from Critical African Scholars

Q4 Social Sciences

Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.57054/ad.v46i3.1199

E. Ikpe

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Claude Ake presents the study of development as underpinned by Eurocentric teleologism. This refers particularly to how Western social sciences have been shaped around key disciplines that have been designed to restrain the ‘dynamic character of reality’, with a focus on analysing order as opposed to change. This article demonstrates the intellectual and practical limitations of linear understandings of change and transition that abstract from the ‘dynamic character of reality’ through disciplinary and other modes of confinement. This has, for instance, underpinned the tendency towards dichotomisation between the state and market across the ideological spectrum, in the study of development. The article responds to this challenge by centring critical African development thought in the work of Claude Ake, Thandika Mkandawire and Adebayo Olukoshi, and shows how conceptual development and analyses that are grounded in empirical experiences of transition problematise strict delineations of the milieus of the state and market, and the limiting of industrial development to particular sectors. In doing so, it showcases how progressing beyond linear analyses of transition, such as through paradigm extension of the developmental state paradigm to the enhanced developmental state paradigm, draws on the work of these key critical scholars. Eka Ikpe, African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, UK. Email: ekaette.ikpe@kcl.ac.uk

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超越国家-市场二分法、发展主义和产业变革:来自批判性非洲学者的学习

克劳德·阿克提出了以欧洲中心目的论为基础的发展研究。这特别指的是西方社会科学是如何围绕一些关键学科形成的，这些学科的设计目的是抑制“现实的动态特征”，重点是分析秩序，而不是变化。这篇文章展示了对变化和过渡的线性理解的智力和实践局限性，这种理解通过纪律和其他限制模式从“现实的动态特征”中抽象出来。例如，在发展研究中，在意识形态范围内，这支持了国家与市场二分法的倾向。本文通过在Claude Ake、Thandika Mkandawire和Adebayo Olukoshi的著作中集中批判性的非洲发展思想来回应这一挑战，并展示了基于转型经验的概念发展和分析如何对国家和市场环境的严格描述提出问题，以及将工业发展限制在特定部门。在此过程中，它展示了如何超越对过渡的线性分析，例如通过发展状态范式的范式扩展到增强的发展状态范式，借鉴了这些关键批判性学者的工作。Eka Ikpe，非洲领导力中心，伦敦国王学院，英国电子邮件:ekaette.ikpe@kcl.ac.uk

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Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Africa Development (ISSN 0850 3907) is the quarterly bilingual journal of CODESRIA published since 1976. It is a social science journal whose major focus is on issues which are central to the development of society. Its principal objective is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among African scholars from a variety of intellectual persuasions and various disciplines. The journal also encourages other contributors working on Africa or those undertaking comparative analysis of developing world issues. Africa Development welcomes contributions which cut across disciplinary boundaries. Articles with a narrow focus and incomprehensible to people outside their discipline are unlikely to be accepted.